"A wise and frugal government which shall restrain menfrom injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." (Thomas Jefferson)

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Found the link on Twitter for Joe Scarborough of Dr. Tom Coburn's interview on Morning Joe this morning which is very enlightening on what is happening in the Senate. This is a must see video and one that will make your blood boil. For starters the US Government is spending $51,000 per child on 16 military bases in this country who still have schools. Dr. Coburn tried to submit an amendment to end this $1B gambit and send $12,000 per student to the public schools closing schools on stateside military basis. The amendment was never heard as Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) refused to hear that amendment or any other amendment. The Senate is locked in a standstill. Problem also is on the Republican side where they cannot even get a majority to stand for smaller government.

Oklahoma has done its part in sending Senators Coburn and Inhofe to the Senate who are no nonsense types; now time for some other states to do the same. Noted the fact that Joe and Dr. Tom talked about how they had to confront Newt with some other members of Congress because Gingrich was not a small government conservative and wanted to spend, spend, spend. The truth is coming out on Gingrich more and more that he is not a fiscal conservative or small government person.

We agree with Joe Scarborough in his last remarks on football -- Go Sooners -- Beat the Pokes and send Alabama to the National Championship and add send the Sooners to The Fiesta Bowl.

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My friend Sen. Tom Coburn told us today he thinks Congress needs a new set of people to take on the country's problems. http://t.co/C8y4RJtz

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"I don't think that the way to correct a spin from the left is to try to impart a spin from the right.... [A]n information flow distorted from the right would be just as much a disservice as distortion from the left. What we really should be after... is accurate information. And I don't see what any conservative or anybody else for that matter has to fear from accurate information." M. Stanton Evans

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Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY)

“For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he’ll defeat you,” he told CNN back in May. “He can’t murder you. He can’t burn your house. The only thing he can do to you, as an elected official, is defeat you for reelection. And if that means more to you than your country when we need patriots to come out in a situation when we’re in extremity, you shouldn’t even be in Congress.”

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John Stuart Mill was a 19th century political philosopher:

"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it." John Stuart Mill.